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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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